What is the purpose of marriage?

[Dante]

poor yurt and his gotcha game: whenever he thinks he's caught one of those he sees as his 'better' making an error, yurt farts his way into a thread like a pit bull...all bite, no brains.

 

[Yurt]

A straw man argument occurs in the context of a debate―formal or informal―when one side attacks a position―the "straw man"―not held by the other side, then acts as though the other side's position has been refuted.

Logical Fallacy: Straw Man

you're dumb dante

 

[Dante]

A straw man argument occurs in the context of a debate―formal or informal―when one side attacks a position―the "straw man"―not held by the other side, then acts as though the other side's position has been refuted.

Logical Fallacy: Straw Man

you're dumb dante

An oversimplified definition of a term?? Why am I not surprised? You appear to be like the fool who used a word as a noun and then insisted the verb definition held.

To disregard the key point of the same-sex marriage argument, that same-sex couples deserve to be treated equal to opposite-sex couples, allows the introduction of polygamy and incest, and child marriages. That sets up the straw man argument. It is a misrepresentation of the same-sex marriage argument. The slippery slope can then be inserted into the argument and the straw man (same-sex marriage opens marriage up to ALL forms of marriage outside of couples) falls.

Wikipedia actually spells it out for you:

The straw man fallacy occurs in the following pattern of argument:

Person 1 has position X.
Person 2 disregards certain key points of X and instead presents the superficially similar position Y. The position Y is a distorted version of X and can be set up in several ways, including:
1) Presenting a misrepresentation of the opponent's position.

This reasoning is fallacious because attacking a distorted version of a position does not address the actual position.

Yurt has abandoned the full context that I re-posted above. Why? Because when gotcha trolls attack, context is to a troll, like Kryptonite to Superman.

 

[Yurt]

an oversimplified definition? lmao. the definition is clear and concise and spot on.

since you like wiki, here is wiki on slippery slope:

A slippery slope argument states that a relatively small first step leads to a chain of related events culminating in some significant effect, much like an object given a small push over the edge of a slope sliding all the way to the bottom.[

as any intelligent person can see, claiming that polygamy is next is without a doubt a slippery slope argument, not a straw man.

 

[Dante]

an oversimplified definition? lmao. the definition is clear and concise and spot on.

since you like wiki, here is wiki on slippery slope:

A slippery slope argument states that a relatively small first step leads to a chain of related events culminating in some significant effect, much like an object given a small push over the edge of a slope sliding all the way to the bottom.[

as any intelligent person can see, claiming that polygamy is next is without a doubt a slippery slope argument, not a straw man.

taking something out of it's full context and refusing to see multiple fallacies used in conjunction in order to build a straw man ....

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